Maria Elmquist

Maria Elmquist
Innovationsteknik
maria dot backman at chalmers dot se
+46 31 772 84 12

Presentation:

Maria Elmquist (formerly Backman) is an assistant professor at the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Centre de Gestion Scientifique at Ecole des Mines in Paris where she was a visiting researcher in 2004 and 2007-2008. She presented her PhD thesis on Prerequisites for innovative concepts in established R&D structures in 2007.

Her current academic research is mainly focused on the management of innovation, organization of R&D and design activities, eco-innovation and strategic change. Ongoing research includes projects on the development of innovative capabilities and the management of open innovation. She uses mainly qualitative methods (interviews, observation, interaction research …) and is used to working in close collaboration with industrial partners (according to a collaborative research approach) where the objective is to create knowledge that is relevant to both academics and practitioners and also actionable for the partners.

Her research has appeared in journals such as Research Policy, R&D Management and Creativity and Innovation Management and she has also written a book on concept car development. She is also a program director at Chalmers Advanced Management Programs and the Study Director of the PhD school at the department.

Member in the following projects

Managing Open Innovation

Publications 2009

Adler, N; Elmquist, Maria; Norrgren, Flemming: The Challenge of Managing Boundary-Spanning Research Activities: Experiences from the Swedish Context: The challenge of managing boundary spanning research. Research Policy, 38 (7) pp. 1136-1149.

Aggeri, F.; Elmquist, Maria; Pohl, Hans: Managing learning in the automotive industry – the innovation race for electric vehicles. International Journal of Automotive Technology, 9 (2) pp. 123-147.

Elmquist, Maria; Masson P, Le: The value of a failed R&D project: emerging evaluation criteria for innovation projects. R&D Management, 39 (2) pp. 139-152.

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias; Ollila, Susanne: Exploring the management of collaborative arenas from a platform perspective. IPDM Conference, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 7-9, 2009,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Sustainable development through innovative design: lessons from the KCP method experimented with an automotive firm. International Journal of Automotive Technology Management, 9 (2) pp. 229-244.

Elmquist, Maria; Fredberg, Tobias; Ollila, Susanne: Exploring the field of open innovation. European Journal of Innovation Management, 12 (3) pp. 326-345.

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: The challenges of managing open innovation in highly innovative fields: exploring the use of the KCP method. European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.,

Hordern, Thomas; Elmquist, Maria: The Role of Design Firms in Innovation: How Design Firms Contribute to the Innovative Capabilities of Core Firms. European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.,

Pohl, Hans; Styhre, Alexander; Elmquist, Maria: The concept of ‘interessement’: The story of a power-split technology for hybrid electric vehicles. International. Journal of Innovation Management, 13 (1) pp. 1-18.

2008

Aggeri, F.; Elmquist, Maria; Pohl, Hans: Managing learning strategies in the automotive industry – the race for hybridization. Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20, 2008,

Aggeri, F.; Elmquist, Maria; Pohl, Hans: Managing innovation fields: another look at how eco-innovation capabilities are built in the automotive industry. Strategic Management Society, Köln, Germany, October 12-15, 2008,

Börjesson, Sofia; Elmquist, Maria: Aiming at innovation in the Swedish defense industry – the difficulties of responding to disruptive market change in a technology driven context. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30, 2008. ,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Developing innovative capabilities: Lessons from an experimental process in the automotive industry using a design theory approach. European Academy of Management, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 14-17, 2008,

Elmquist, Maria: Innovation and the limits of the selection logic: Introducing generative capacity as a complement to absorptive capacity. Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities Conference, Köpenhamn, Denmark, April 28-30, 2008,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Alternative design strategies to combine environmental and economic sustainability: Lessons from an empirical experiment with an automotive firm. Gerpisa Conference, Turino, Italy, June 18-20, 2008,

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Organizing open innovation in practice: a case study of an environmental innovation project in the automotive industry. International Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 29-July 1, 2008.,

Fredberg, Tobias; Elmquist, Maria; Ollila, Susanne: Managing Open Innovation: Present Findings and Future Directions. Stockholm : Vinnova VR 2008:02. ISBN/ISSN: 978-91-85959-07-5

Hordern, Thomas; Elmquist, Maria: Design in innovation: how external design firms contribute to the development of the innovative capabilities of large firms. to be presented at the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Symposium, Singapore, December 14-17, 2008.,

Pohl, Hans; Elmquist, Maria: On the way to electric cars - a case study of a hybrid electric vehicle project at Volvo Cars. R&D Management Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 17-20, 2008,

2007

Adler, Niclas; Elmquist, Maria; Frössevi, B; Fredberg, Tobias; Norrgren, Flemming: Loud killers and already-invented-here: managing change in professional organizations. the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, August 4-8, 2007.,

Elmquist, Maria: Enabling Innovation: Exploring the prerequisites for innovative concepts in R&D. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology. Diss. (Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie;2576) ISBN/ISSN: 978-91-7291-895-5

Elmquist, Maria: Vehicles for Innovation: the case of a neglected concept car project at Volvo Cars. Knowledge and Process Management , 14 (1) pp. 1-14.

Elmquist, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia; Setterberg, Sten: Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars,. R&D Management , 37 (1) pp. 17-28.

Elmquist, Maria; Segrestin, B: Towards a new logic for Front End management: From drug discovery to drug design in Pharmaceutical R&D. J. of Creativity and Innovation Management, 16 (2) pp. 106-120.

Fredberg, Tobias; Elmquist, Maria; Ollila, Susanne: Managing Open Innovation: Present Findings and Future Directions,. Göteborg : Chalmers University of Technology.

2006

Backman, Maria: Beyond R&D failure or success: managing projects from an innovation process perspective. R&D Management Conference, Windermere, UK, July 7-9, 2006,

Börjesson, Sofia; Backman, Maria: Vehicles for attention creation - The case of a concept car at Volvo Cars. European Journal of Innovation Management, pp. 149-160.

2005

Backman, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia; Setterberg, Sten: Working with concepts in the fuzzy front end: exploring the context for innovation for different types of concepts at Volvo Cars. R&D Management,

Backman, Maria: Projektledning i strålkastarljuset en studie av Volvo YCC.

Styhre, Alexander; Backman, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia: The gendered machine: Concept car development at Volvo Car Corporation. Gender, Work and Organization, 12 (6) pp. 551-571.

Styhre, Alexander; Backman, Maria; Börjesson, Sofia: A gendered carnival? Project work at Volvo cars. Women in Management Review, 20 (2) pp. 96-106.